People I
author of The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
amendment that repealed Prohibition
21st
first woman to pilot an airplane solo across the Atlantic
Amelia Earhart
organization that insured all member bank accounts for up to $5,000 per account
FDIC
times when people would lose confidence in a bank and rush to withdraw their money
bank runs
famous aviator whose son was kidnapped and killed in 1932
Charles Lindbergh
Franklin Roosevelt's government spending and jobs program
New Deal
FDR's wife
Eleanor Roosevelt
one of the first government projects planned by the New Deal, created for the purpose of controlling flooding, conserving soil, and bringing hydroelectric power to the mid-South
TVA
severe drought that hit the Great plains in 1930, causing large clouds of dust
Dust Bowl
thirty-first president
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt's steps to promote friendship with Latin American countries
Good Neighbor policy
British socialist economist who taught the government must take control of bringing a nation out of economic depression
John Maynard Keynes
legislation in which the government paid farmers not to plant crops or graze livestock on pastureland to increase prices for agricultural products
AAA
making risky investments for the chance of making a quick profit
speculation
Harry Rimmer
legislation passed during FDR's presidency which gave the president broad powers to control banking policies and to reopen banks as he saw fit
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Labor union organizer who became the head of the Communist Party USA
Gus Hall
public relief program launched by the New Deal in which people were required to work before receiving government money
WPA
name for Roosevelt's attempt to appoint six new justices to the Supreme Court in order to swing the Court in his political favor
packing the Court
candidate who ran against Herbert Hoover in the election of 1928
Al Smith
economic philosophy that the government must take control of bringing a nation out of economic depression
Keynesian economics
leader of the United Mine Workers union who organized the Committee for Industrial Organizations
John L. Lewis
government project that provided jobs for young men who worked on reforestation and other soil and water conservation projects
CCC
paying a small percentage of the price of a stock in cash with the hope of selling it at a profit and paying off the loan that was used to purchase the stock
on margin